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Heritage of the Printed Book (HPB). Marian Lefferts Executive Manager. Oxford, 3 March 2011. Heritage of the Printed Book Database. Nearly 3 million bibliographical records for European printing from c . 1455 to c.1830 Hosted by OCLC, Dublin (OH)
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Heritage of the Printed Book (HPB) Marian Lefferts Executive Manager Oxford, 3 March 2011
Heritage of the Printed BookDatabase • Nearly 3 million bibliographical recordsfor European printing from c. 1455 to c.1830 • Hosted by OCLC, Dublin (OH) • Files provided by the 30 institutions from 17 different countries • http://www.cerl.org/web/en/resources/hpb/content 2
Access to the HPB Available via OCLC’s FirstSearch (http://firstsearch.oclc.org) Connexion (http://connexion.oclc.org) Z39.50 Limited record display available via CERL Portal (http://cerl.epc.ub.uu.se/sportal/) Via OCLC’s WorldCat.org (registered HPB users only) 10 10
What to do with the HPB? • Locate and identify texts • Evaluate different copies of the same title in different libraries • Study the transmission and dissemination of texts in print • Re-use records in library catalogues
Provenance in the HPB • Relevant information is recorded in various (sub)fields in the bibliographic records • But… currently not indexed in the HPB • This will be fixed in 2011 for both HPB and OCLC’s WorldCat
Provenance in the HPB The index will bring together • field 561 (Ownership and Custodial History = UNIMARC 317) • field 563 (Binding Information = UNIMARC 310) • fields 700 and 710 with specific relator codes (Added Entries for Personal Names and Corporate Names = UNIMARC 7XX fields) • Examples of relator codes: dte dedicatee, bsl bookseller, fmo former owner, ins inscriber , dnr donor, col collector, etc.
Consortium ofEuropean Research Libraries www.cerl.org Email: marian.lefferts@cerl.org Thank you 14